It took me a lot of effort to come up with this 2-minute piece. Some of my competitors have prepared amazing hip-hop pieces. Others are well-trained break dancers. One was even going to dance ballet - and he's male!

I first started reading the newspaper when I was 7 years old, damn young I know.

I know when the regular newspaper boy would arrive at my uncle's gate. When he does, I would then rush to my uncle and beg for the kiddie section. if he isn't home, I have to agonizingly wait for him to arrive. My uncle hates it when I fumble the newspaper first before him, since my little hands would create dreaded creases everywhere on the print. I would just have to wait for him to hand me my part of the newspaper.

Do you love God?
I DO.
Say, Lord I love You very much.
Pass this message to 14 people.
If you don't do this before 2011 ends,an important person in your life will leave you!
You are an important person for me, so I forwarded this message to you. Don't think about the load credits you will waste. It's just 14 people.
Please pass..

Seriously?!

Yet I received another of these infamous text message from my gullible friends. And another one. And another. Same text message. Different friends. They have been passing the message around in the same circle of people. Unfortunately I became an unwilling part of this shit.

It was already dark, but a neighbor came to our house and told my parents about the good but eerie news. With that, my mother and father went out of the house with our neighbor to check the news' validity.

"Pang-lock mog bintana ug pultahan. [Lock the windows and doors]", father said. I was left to take care of my two younger sisters. As they left, I hurriedly locked the doors and all the windows.